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What does substitutionary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to substitution, or replacement.
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The substitutionary sacrifice of the incarnated Son of God as the sole and all-sufficient ground of redemption from the guilt and power of sin, and from its eternal consequences.
Here the Son clearly speaks of his substitutionary atonement for sinful humanity.
Evidently here is the notion of a substitutionary offering, although the reason given is not the true reason.
It affirms the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures, original sin, substitutionary atonement and justification by faith.
His was a vicarious death, both sacrificial and substitutionary.
Not all sinners may accept the offer, but God is reconciled to all, in the sense that the substitutionary atonement of Christ covers all wrongfulness.

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